A GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE MEDICO-LEGAL AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS REGARDING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF BULGARIA
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2024
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Plovdiv University Press
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Since the 1990s, issues related to persons with disabilities have been permanently on the agenda of a number of international organizations, legislative and state policies, etc. This trend is not unexpected, but rather a conditioned consequence of the development of civilization, society, industrialization and medicine. According to official Eurostat3 data, as of 2023 only within the EU, people with disabilities number one hundred and one million people, i.e. one out of every four people. Worldwide, the number of persons under the age of eighteen is ninety-five million people, of which thirteen million are severely disabled. In our country, according to NSI4 data from 2022, the number of persons with disabilities has reached 654,547 in the country, of which 22,248 are children. In this sense, the administrative-legal, medico-legal and social issues that arise on a daily basis, both for administrative bodies and for people with disabilities, become more and more comprehensive and affect more and more deeply basic constitutional rights of citizens. In the foreground the issues emerged in relation to respect for human dignity, risk of social exclusion, dissatisfaction with provided social care, practical impossibility for individuals to exercise work, access to modern and expensive treatment, etc.
The purpose of this review is to highlight the most significant medico-legal and social problems through the prism of European and national legislation, which problems are registered on the territory of the Republic of Bulgaria, as well as to make recommendations to the legislator for their resolution.
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people with disabilities, children with disabilities, health care